Section 4 • 552 Questions

Bioprocess Engineering & Kinetics

Practice official GATE Biotechnology questions on Bioprocess Engineering: Monod growth kinetics, chemostat balance, bioreactor mass transfer (kLa), sterilization Del factor, and chromatography.

Solved Official Questions (552)

GATE BT 2010 • Q1 MCQ • 1M

a chenion growing der steady sale a bacterial culture can a grown a divin a higher

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GATE BT 2010 • Q2 MCQ • 1M

-D Electrophoresis 1. Biochips S. Microarray R. Affinity chromatography 2. Syber Green 3. Antibody linked sephrose beads 4. Ampholyles

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GATE BT 2010 • Q5 MCQ • 1M

Program used for essentially local similarity search is

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GATE BT 2010 • Q6 MCQ • 1M

Peptidyl transferase activity resides in

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GATE BT 2010 • Q9 MCQ • 1M

Under stress conditions bacteria accumulate

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GATE BT 2010 • Q11 MCQ • 1M

Which one of the following DOES NOT belong to the domain of Bacteria?

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GATE BT 2010 • Q12 MCQ • 1M

Interferon-beta (IFN-β) is a crucial type I interferon cytokine primarily produced by:

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GATE BT 2010 • Q17 MCQ • 1M

Accession number is a unique identification assigned to a

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GATE BT 2010 • Q19 MCQ • 1M

In a chemostat growing under steady state, a bacterial culture can be grown at a dilution rate higher than the maximum specific growth rate by:

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GATE BT 2010 • Q21 MCQ • 1M

Idenify the enzyme that catalyzes the following reaction a-Keloglutarate + NADH + NH, + H° ? Glutamate + NAD' + H-O

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GATE BT 2010 • Q22 MCQ • 1M

The degree of inhibition for an enzyme catalyzed reaction at a particular inhibitor concentration is independent of initial substrate concentration. The inhibition follows

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GATE BT 2010 • Q24 MCQ • 1M

Nuciease-hypersensitive sites in the chromosoines are sites that appear to be

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GATE BT 2010 • Q25 MCQ • 1M

The formation of peptide cross-links bervicen adjacent glycan chains in cell wall synthesis is called

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GATE BT 2010 • Q26 MCQ • 2M

Decermine the correctness or otherwise of the following Assertion (a) and the Reason (r) Assertion: Somatic embryogenesis in plants is a two slep process comprising of embryc Reason: Embryo initiation is indepeudent of the presence of 2. 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid whereas embryo production requires a high concentration of 2.4. dichlorophenox vacetic acid.

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GATE BT 2010 • Q27 MCQ • 2M

An immobilized enzyme being used in a continuous plug low reactor exhibits an effectiveness factor (m) of 1.2. The value of y being greater than I 0) could be apparently due to

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GATE BT 2010 • Q29 MCQ • 2M

Determine the correctness or otherwise of the following Assertion (a) and the Reason (r) Assertion: formation by DNA fragmentation. MTT assay is used to determine cell viability based on the principle of colour Reason: converting tetrazolium soluble salt 10 insoluble salt MTT assay is used to determine cell viability based on ite colour development b

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GATE BT 2010 • Q31 MCQ • 2M

Match the chemicals in Group I with the possible type/class in Group II Group ! Group Il P. Picloram Q. Zeatin 2. Auxin 1. Vitamin R. Thiamine S. Glutamine 3. Amino Acid 4. Cytokinin

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GATE BT 2010 • Q32 MCQ • 2M

Match Group I with Group Il Group I Group Il P. Fibronectin R. a-Macroglobilin Q. Insulin Uptake of amino acids and gluco Trypsin inhibitc S. Transferrin 3. Binds iron 4. Cell attachment 10 substralum

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GATE BT 2010 • Q35 MCQ • 2M

The lurnover numbers for the enzymes. El and E2 are 150 s"' and 15 s" respectively. This means

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GATE BT 2010 • Q36 MCQ • 2M

Maich the iterns in Group I with Group 11 Group I (Vectors) Group II (Maximum DNA packaging) P. A phage Q. Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes (BACs) 1. 35-45 kb 2. 100-300 kb S. R. Pl derived Artificial Chromosomes (PACS) 3. ≤ 300 kh à cosmid 4. 5-25 kh ()

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GATE BT 2010 • Q37 MCQ • 2M

Match Group I with Group li Group! Group lI P. Staphylococcus aureus R. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Q. Candida albicans 1. Biofilms 3. Methicillin resistance 2. Bacteriocins S. Lacsobacillus lacsis 4. Isoniazid

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GATE BT 2010 • Q38 MCQ • 2M

A mutant Ga protein with increased GPase activity would

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GATE BT 2010 • Q43 MCQ • 2M

Match the products in Group I with the microbial culures in Group II used for cheir industrial production Group! P. Gluconic acid Group Il 1. Leuconostoc resenteroids Q. L - Lysine R. Dextran 2. Aspergillus niger S. Cellulase 3. Brevibacteriam flavum 4. Trichoderma reesei

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GATE BT 2010 • Q45 MCQ • 2M

Thermal death of microorganisms in liquid medium follows first order kinetics. If the initial cell concentration in the fermentation medium is 10^7 cells/ml and the final acceptable contamination level is 10^-3 cells, for how long should 1 m^3 medium be treated at 120 °C (thermal deactivation rate constant = 0.23 / min) to achieve acceptable load?

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GATE BT 2010 • Q46 MCQ • 2M

True breeding Drosophila flies with curved wings and dark bodies were mated with true breeding short wings and tan body Drosophila. The F1 progeny was observed to be with curved wings and tan body. The F1 progeny was again allowed to interbreed and produced flies of following phenotypes. What is the recombination frequency between wing shape and body colour?

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GATE BT 2010 • Q48 MCQ • 2M

The Now rate required lo result in steady state concentration of sucrose as 1.5 g / L in she bioreactor will be

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GATE BT 2010 • Q49 MCQ • 2M

If Y, = 0.4 g / g for the above culture and steady state ceil concentration in the bioreactor is 4 g / L the resulting substrate concentration will be

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GATE BT 2010 • Q50 MCQ • 2M

The number of c-helical turns permeating the membrane is

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GATE BT 2010 • Q52 MCQ • 2M

The AG° for the oxidation of NADH by FAD is

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GATE BT 2010 • Q53 MCQ • 2M

The value of AG, given Kay its 1.7. al 23°C will be

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GATE BT 2010 • Q54 MCQ • 2M

The mean value of acid concentration will be

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GATE BT 2011 • Q1 MCQ • 1M

Embryonic stem cells are derived from

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GATE BT 2011 • Q3 MCQ • 1M

Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death characterized by specific morphological and biochemical features including:

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GATE BT 2011 • Q4 MCQ • 1M

Yeast artificial chromosomes (YAC's) are used for cloning

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GATE BT 2011 • Q5 MCQ • 1M

'- 3' polymerization R. 3' - 5' exonuclease activity S. 5' - 3' exonuclease activity

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GATE BT 2011 • Q8 MCQ • 1M

1 Potency (Probability that microbe will overcome human immunity system) A pharmaceutical company is contemplating the development of a vaccine against the most dangerous microbe. Which microbe should the company target in its first attempt?

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GATE BT 2011 • Q9 MCQ • 1M

Hydrated synthetic seeds which are produced by ion exchange reaction involve mixing the somatic embryos in a solution of

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GATE BT 2011 • Q10 MCQ • 1M

Shoot organogenesis by tissue culture results into

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GATE BT 2011 • Q11 MCQ • 1M

'Hairy roots' induced in vitro by the infection of Agrobacterium rhizogenes, are characterized by: P. a high degree of lateral branching Q. genetic instability of culture R. an absence of geotropism S. poor biomass production

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GATE BT 2011 • Q12 MCQ • 1M

In balanced growth phase of a cell P. all components of a cell grow at the same rate Q. specific growth determined by cell number or cell mass would be the same R. the growth rate is independent of substrate concentration S. the growth rate decreases with decreasing substrate concentration

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